Using PDB files and symbols to debug your application

Yanick Salzmann

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With the help of PDB files, you are able to recover the source code as it was before compilation from the bits and bytes at runtime.

DebugSymbols_Source.zip
- DebugSymbols
  - Debug
    - Stacktrace.exe
    - Stacktrace.ilk
    - Symbols.exe
    - Symbols.ilk
  - DebugSymbols.sln
  - Stacktrace
    - FunctionObject.cpp
    - FunctionObject.h
    - Main.cpp
    - StackFrame.cpp
    - StackFrame.h
    - StackTrace.cpp
    - StackTrace.h
    - Stacktrace.vcxproj
    - Stacktrace.vcxproj.filters
    - Stacktrace.vcxproj.user
    - StdAfx.cpp
    - StdAfx.h
  - Symbols
    - Main.cpp
    - SymbolFunctionEntry.cpp
    - SymbolFunctionEntry.h
    - SymbolHandler.cpp
    - SymbolHandler.h
    - Symbols.vcxproj
    - Symbols.vcxproj.filters
    - Symbols.vcxproj.user

#pragma once

// Maybe later ill make it for x64, there are only a few changes
#ifndef _M_IX86
#error This code only works if you compile the exe as 32 bit executable!
#endif

#include <Windows.h>
#define _NO_CVCONST_H
#include <DbgHelp.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <sstream>

#pragma comment(lib, "DbgHelp.lib")

#include "FunctionObject.h"
#include "StackFrame.h"
#include "StackTrace.h"

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